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More newbuilding orders were reported last week, while deals in the second hand market were fewer. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa commented that “strong number of contracts

Shipping has talked itself into a convenient, yet erroneous, belief: that headline efficiency percentages on paper tell an owner what a clean technology will deliver in the real world. In

Over the spring of 2026, we logged 354 reported tanker fixtures across two of the Middle East’s principal crude gateways and set them side by side to compare how each

The VLCC tanker market seems to be witnessing reduced volatility after a multi-week turbulence. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Gibson said that “the global VLCC market appears to have

Global trade today is at the centre of a ‘structural stress’ in which geopolitics, energy dependency and climate constraints are crashing together to reshape flows of goods, capital and policy

Coal gasification is increasingly emerging as an additional driver of coal trade and dry bulk shipping demand. While it is unlikely to fundamentally reverse the long-term transition away from coal,

This year’s El Niño could bring more cargo flow shifts. In a recent weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that “El Niño is again becoming a factor for 2026, and its

Capesize The market closed the week on a softer footing, with the BCI 182 5TC easing from just under $50,000 at the start of the week to $44,374, reflecting a

The President of the UGS, Melina Travlos, addressed a wide range of questions of national, European and global interest. The highly anticipated Press Conference of the Union of Greek Shipowners